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In some senses, ingrain is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
To dye with a fast or lasting colour.
To make (something) deeply part of something else.
The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.
The lessons I learned at school were firmly ingrained in my mind.
adj
Dyed with grain, or kermes.
Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric.
Thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
When were such changes ever made in men's natural relations to one another: when was such reconcilement of ingrain differences ever effected!
noun
An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.